04/04/2006

Last week, Portuguese director Luís Galvão Teles started shooting Dot.com [+see also:
trailer
film profile], about the impact of new technologies on a small village of Portugal, marking the return of the filmmaker two years after Fado Blues. Principal photography is set to last seven weeks in Ferreira do Zêzere (Portugal) and Madrid.

Staring João Tempera, Marco Delgado, Maria Adanez, Isabel Abreu, Margarida Carpinteiro, Lia Gama and several locals from Ferreira do Zêzere, Dot.com tells the story of an engineer who is stuck for professional reasons in a little village called Águas Altas. In order to fight his boredom, he decides to create a website about that region, but unexpectedly ends up clashing with the interests of a multi-national company that has the same name as the village. Taking on comic tones, the script will explore this David-and-Goliath type battle in the consequences in the lives of the inhabitants of what used to be a calm village.

With a budget of €2.3m, Dot.com is being produced by François Gonot of Lisbon-based company Fado Filmes, in co-production with UK's Ipso Facto and supported by the Eurimages Fund. It is set to premiere in 2007.